In December 1893, she was transferred to the West Coast of the United States, for service in the Pacific Northwest and Alaskan waters, where she served until wrecked near the Pribilof Islands on 27 July 1910.

Officers and 25 men were detailed with arms and one rapid-fire gun to protect the legation until the situation calmed by 29 March, when they left port.

[1] Commodore Perry, originally designed for short operating distances of the Great Lakes, was ill-fitted for her new duty in the open sea.

Vessels on duty in Alaskan waters required ample food storage room, enough to hold six months' stores and provisions, and enough coal-bunker space to cruise actively for at least two weeks.

As there was no salvage capability in the Pribilof Islands at that time, the Bering Sea fleet's commanding officer, Captain Daniel Patrick Foley, ordered her stripped and abandoned.